Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the Spectator lost its temper, and the Times required a full week to recover its equanimity. An early Times editorial declared that President Roosevelt once said, "We needed Panama and we took it," and argued that the meaning of President Coolidge's speech is: "When America needs territory she takes it, and when she wants warships she builds them...
...Washington luncheon, last week, Dr. Martin addressed 21 ambassadors of Central & South American countries. Panama, he stated, had already donated a site for the proposed half-million dollar Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, where tropical diseases would be studied, remedies devised. The U. S. had already appropriated an annual fund of $50,000 for research & administrative work. Dr. Martin proposed that the 21 Latin-American countries should participate, on a population pro rata basis, in contributing a total of $37,500 annually for the same purposes...
...Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Congress", Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...
Soda Fountain. Said Capt. C. W. Gilbert of the Panama Mail Line's Venezuela, last week, "I have watched American citizens when they had every opportunity to drink hard liquor if they wished. Most of them just don't do it." Impressed, company directors installed a soda fountain on his ship, were gratified when it reported $100 business between New York and the Pacific Coast...